Quench (disambiguation)

A quench, in materials science, is a rapid cooling.

Quench or quenching may also refer to:

Science and technology

 * Quenching (astronomy), a process in which a galaxy loses cold gas ending star formation
 * Quenching (fluorescence), any process which decreases the fluorescence intensity of a given substance
 * Quenching (scrubber), a type of pollution scrubber
 * Magnet quench, a loss of superconductivity resulting in a rapid rise of resistance and temperature, such as in a superconducting magnet
 * Dark quencher, a dye that absorbs light, but does not emit it, used in molecular biology
 * the means by which a Geiger–Müller tube is able to distinguish individual particles
 * in a super-regenerative receiver, the process of interrupting the main RF oscillation with a lower frequency oscillation
 * the process of stopping an electrical arc, for example in a fuse or spark-gap transmitter
 * in an internal combustion engine, the rapid cooling of fuel inside the combustion chamber that prevents it from burning
 * rapid evaporative cooling of a gas by injection of a liquid
 * a secondary gas in a neon tube filled with a Penning mixture

Other uses

 * Quench (album), by the Beautiful South, 1998
 * Quench (band), a British rock band
 * Quench (company), an American water-cooler company
 * Quench (musician), Australian dance music producer
 * Quench, a magazine published by gair rhydd, a student newspaper of Cardiff University
 * Quench, a program on the Food Network
 * Quench, a Zimbabwean soft drink